September 30, 2011

At a cost of more than $100-million each, Canada's next figher jet - the controversial F-35 - will not even be able to communicate in the high arctic. Ouch!

September 26, 2011

New information about Minister of Defence Peter MacKay's personal use of military transportation has recently come to light. His use of a Cormorant helicopter, which picked him up from a vacation on Canada's east coast, carried a price tag of $32,000 per flight hour. Ouch!

September 9, 2011

Ontario's Benefits Tribunal, a quasi-judicial body much like the Human Rights Tribunal, is responsible for handing out disability benefits. The Tribunal has long been criticized for approving benefits for people who ought not qualify for them. Today, a REAL Ontario judge challenged the Tribunal, arguing that some recipients "are entitled to sympathy, but not benefits." With such a flexible, individualized approval process for disability benefits in Ontario it is difficult to calculate the financial costs of fraudulently obtained benefits. Ouch!